It's not much of an addiction; it's mostly a habit. When I use Maemo, I enjoy its interface; I don't miss anything from Windows. However, on the desktop, I have many habits. For example, can Linux go into Hibernate - I use Hibernate every evening, and Windows uptime can easily reach a month, when I would suddenly check-for-updates-and-have-to-restart? Apparently, yes - s2disk of userspace software suspend. Does Linux have a comfortable file-explorer which would store its session (similarly to most modern browsers) between restarts? What is the cleanest way to manage background processes (similarly to Windows "Services")?
Fortunately, I haven't used Internet Explorer for a very long time. But my personal bookmarks are chaotically divided between Google Chrome, Firefox, Nightly, and SeaMonkey. I use only SeaMonkey, currently, but I wouldn't want to erase this data. I have purged Safari, recently... And also removed RealPlayer (good-for-nothing-adware) and DivX. Now, the only way to play videos in browser is through Adobe-Flash - or WebM, since it's apparently built into browser, and doesn't require an external plugin. I should install VLC player, probably...
Linux's gconf is better than Windows Registry; Windows Registry has too much keys, and I cannot determine which of them are safe to delete, and programs generally _don't_ clean up their registry during uninstallation, and I don't trust third-party programs to clean up the registry without destroying the system.
Good to know.
I will have to look it up with the manufacturer of the printer. The current printer-software for Windows is done quite well; giving detailed relevant guide about the specific error ("no paper" or "paper jam", for instance) when the printer reports it.
Yes, I am. Apparently, it's cross-platform. How difficult will it be for a Linux-installed server (Samba, or Tomcat) to read/share/modify/write files of Windows-partition if I install Linux as dual-boot with Windows, with intention to migrate to Linux without destroying Windows installation?
I would rather use LibreOffice. But yes, it's a bad idea to lock up documents in proprietary file formats. The problem is, I still doubt you can find an HTML+MathML+SVG editor to edit documents which contain formatted text, with links and tables, with pictures (vector and raster, both), and with formulae. Xinha was the closest one when I had met her about five years ago - but as I see it, SeaMonkey's Composer is better. And .odt is as human-unreadable as .doc itself; not much difference, for the user...
RTF is interesting; WordPad itself is handy, it knows subscript and superscript despite having no GUI-buttons for them, it reads tables despite having no GUI to write-modify them... RTF specification even includes description of shapres, like rectangles and ellipses!.. But Seamonkey Composer can surely do the same, and HTML format is more open-widespread, even though size of the file is larger, due to redundancy of the markup.
TeX is creepy - I don't know why I don't like it.
ConTeXt is alluring, since I dislike the Latex's idea of insulating the user from the art he creates.
Graffiti Markup Language is amusing, and inspiring; I hope to see Origami Markup Language in the future.
LilyPond is beautiful, especially considering that Denemo seems to be able to recognise music through the microphone, besides allowing to type it on the keyboard. It's also handy that the music can be exported from Denemo as MIDI musical file.
I would rather use PDFedit.
Archaic photo editor on Windows... Yes, I use it, and mostly not for photographs, but for icon-editing - like, inverting the colours without losing the transparent background (that's one disadvantage of Point, it doesn't understand transparency).
I know. I enjoy using XPaint on Maemo; it has simplicity and versatility of Paint, and recognises transparency. Unfortunately, it says that colour information is irretrievably lost when using any display depth less than 24 bits. N900's canvas depth is 16 bits.
Best wishes.
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